ghadi غادي

Algerian Darja · particle

“ghadi” (غادي) is a particle in Algerian Darja meaning future marker (going to + verb).

Meanings

1. future marker (going to + verb)
2. going, heading
3. over there (regional)

Usage

In western Algeria, ghadi serves mainly as a future marker before a conjugated verb: ghadi nroh ("I'm going to leave"). It then corresponds to "going to" + infinitive in English. It can also mean "going", as a participle synonymous with rayeh. The feminine is ghadya and the plural ghadyin. In other regions, notably in the east, ghadi is rather an adverb meaning "over there". Context therefore decides which use is meant. The word belongs to the informal register.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “ghadi” but also “ghady”, “radi” and “8adi”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 8 is light ha (ه) or ghayn (غ), depending on the writer.

Type “ghadi” on the Arabic keyboard

In Moroccan Darija

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “going, on the way”; “future marker: going to, will”: ghadi in Moroccan.